Cataract cases one of the most common treatable blindness, age related cataract is the most common cause of cataract and good surgery contributes strongly to patient quality of life

Aims: To find out the frequency of posterior capsule rupture with vitreous loss in extracapsular cataract extraction and in Phacoemulsification techniques.

Settings and Design: A retrospective (descriptive) survey.

Methods and Material: All 2103 patients enrolled are admitted to the hospital for elective cataract surgery Aso eye hospital-Sulaimani city-Kurdistan-Iraq, one day before surgery, full examination systemic and ophthalmologic examination done including slit lamp examination, Tonometry, Ultrasonography and IOL-master used for calculation of IOL power. Include all elective ECCE and phacoemulsification cataract surgeries

Statistical analysis used: Microsoft excels 2007 and 2010.

Results: Total number of cataract patients/eyes for 2009 are 2103 patients/2103 eyes, females 1052 and males 1051, represent 50.29% and 49.70% respectively, 85% of patients aged 55 years or more and 2061(98%) of cataract of senile age related type, 1918 eyes (91%) ECCE has done, 185 eyes (9%) cases phacoemulsification surgery done. There are 141 eyes with vitreous loss (6.8%) with ECCE and 10 eyes (5.4%) with phacoemulsification.

Conclusions: Posterior capsular rupture with Vitreous loss in ECCE was 6.8% and with phacoemulsification technique was 5.4%

Key-words: Extracapsular cataract extraction); Phacoemulsification; Anterior chamber intraocular lens; Posterior chamber intraocular lens); Foldable intraocularlens; intraocular pressure; Vitreous loss.

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